Predates the Supreme Court by forty years and was the apex court until 2008. Bhutanese procedure under the Civil and Criminal Procedure Code 2001 allows parties to appear without counsel and provides for jabmi (legal representatives), with litigation costs kept deliberately low.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- appellate
- Court type
- Intermediate appellate court
- Jurisdiction
- Appeals from the dzongkhag courts, and first-instance jurisdiction over serious matters and cases involving the state.
- Seat
- Thimphu
- Established
- 1968
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